Someone on a forum I frequent wrote: “He has a reassuring, grandfatherly quality, but manages to come across as foreboding at the same time.” These stories aren’t designed to scare the living hell out of you, opting more for the “Twilight Zone” or “Outer Limits” approach. Karloff does a masterful job of narrating, creating an eery atmosphere that few others could match. These recordings are considered by many collectors to be among the best ghost story albums from this time. That same year Mercury Records released two volumes of Karloff reading these stories as a phonograph record. A magazine of the same name served as a tie-in, with each issue containing one of the viginettes Years later these stories were published in a paperback format entitled “Tales of the Frightened”. The radio viginettes were written by Michael Avallone and read by Boris Karloff. No one seems to know exactly how many episodes of this series were broadcast, and none of the original recordings exist. Apparently sometime in the late ’50s/early ’60s there was a syndicated radio feature titled “The Frightened”, which didn’t really get off the ground. There is actually a lengthy tale behind how these recordings came to be, but I’ll do my best to summarize the story for you. Two classic volumes of ghost stories narrated by Boris Karloff for your listening pleasure.
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